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    Could any one help on below pbm?

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    by mounirmeza ·

    Hi,
    I have a new Compaq PC with 10GO of HD, and configuring with one partition C:.
    After installing win95 and Norton utilities, I check my PC and found 2 drive C: and D: with same size 10GO each ans same content.
    Why I have two drives and how can I restore my orinal config with one drive C: and delete D:

    Thanks for your help.
    Mounir

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    • #3770581

      Drive compression?

      by steven chiu ·

      In reply to Could any one help on below pbm?

      Are you able to read write data on the disk the same way you did before? If you can, this might be just a normal situation.

      Check both your Windows drive property and in Norton configuration to see whether any sort of drive compression is turnedon.
      I suspect this comes from Norton. Windows drive compression will create a host drive and it only hold a big file which is presented as your compressed drives. As you say both drives (appears to) have same contents, it could be just a pretty presentation of Norton.

      To the last resort, I guess you would have a Compaq Quick restore CD. Make sure you backup all you need before even putting that in your CD drive.

      • #3787913

        Reply To: Could any one help on below pbm?

        by mounirmeza ·

        In reply to Drive compression?

        Thanks for your reply.
        Exacly, I can read/write data as before.
        But, can compression be activated automaticly without any intervention as never request any compression.

        • #3543217

          Maximum disk address

          by dc guy ·

          In reply to Reply To: Could any one help on below pbm?

          Didn’t Windows 95 have a maximum addressible drive size? I seem to recall that all hard drives of any size were partitioned back then. I didn’t reformat my hard drive when I upgraded from 95 to 98 and it still has two partitions.

        • #3543154

          Most versions 2GB

          by thechas ·

          In reply to Maximum disk address

          Windows 95 was built on the FAT16 file system.

          Therefore, it is limited to 2GB per drive / partition.

          Except, for version 2.5 / C:
          The final OEM version of W95 had both FAT32 and USB support.

          If you are using any version except 2.5, you need to start over, and re-partition the hard drive.

          Primary DOS partition 2GB
          Extended DOS partition, the remainder of the drive.

          Then, create 4 2GB logical drives in the extended partition.

          Further, if this is an older PC, it may not have native recognition of large hard drives.

          If the drive was setup using a drive / BIOS overlay program, you need to follow a special procedure to boot from a floppy. Otherwise, the BIOS can recognize the drive in strange ways.

          Chas

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